Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Institute was not only about plain people, it was for plain people. Some 20,000 Clevelanders attended the Institute's five sessions. Newspapers and radio chains carried the speeches to millions throughout the country. Cleveland high-school students in forums of their own discussed the questions raised at the Institute. Said TIME'S Editor Henry R. Luce: "A meeting like this is the commonest thing in the communal life of America -it is also the very core and pattern of our body politic, each of us, with due humility, a sacred individual, all of us, proudly, members...
...talk to the Clevelanders and their fellow Americans came the Prime Minister of Italy, the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, the Hungarian Minister to Paris, the head of France's second largest political party, the U.S. Secretary of the Navy. At the Cleveland Institute James F. Byrnes delivered an account of his successful stewardship as Secretary of State in a critical year of U.'S. history. From the same platform Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg redefined U.S. foreign policy for the first time since becoming head of the U.S. Senate's Foreign Relations Committee...
Brooks Emeny, president of the Cleveland Council who has helped carry out Newton D. Baker's dream of turning Cleveland's famed civic spirit to foreign affairs, presided at the Institute's sessions. The topic of the speeches was a twofold question...
...retiring Secretary. He grasped Vandenberg's right hand with both of his own, and they talked earnestly for several minutes. Jimmy Byrnes received another tribute-his big audience rose to a thunderous ovation when he was introduced.* Smiling widely, he said: "I am glad I came to Cleveland...
...Spanish-English, and hold this out as the manner in which to speak both English and Spanish." † The most important country of Eastern Europe is Russia, which was not represented at the Institute because Soviet officials ignored several Invitations to send a representative. The Communist Party in Cleveland circulated a pamphlet calling the Institute part of a "Hitlerite dream of world conquest." The Chicago Tribune was also annoyed, although it seemed to have the opposite objection: "One Worlders Stress U.S. as a Global Santa," said the Tribune; it also called the participants "lickspittle members." * U.S.-educated Jan Masaryk spoke...